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Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by Juke_Ellington »

DropInIn wrote: post #339
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #306

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Everyone should make the effort to support the ones that are left. Going to them is an event, and affordable.

"Going to them is an event, and affordable." Hmmm.... So is bull fighting but most of us refuse for various ethical and moral reasons... Maybe we should treat a giant parking lot that goes unused for 99% of the time, and requires people to use polluting transportation when they could use public transit to go to a theatre, as the giant unethical mess it is, eh?

To be fair, most movie theaters in the US have a giant, 99% unused parking lot attached to them anyways. Plus anywhere with a drive-in probably doesn’t have transit.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by ClassyJacket »

thih9 wrote: post #159

As someone who doesn't use Steam and Steam Deck, what's the difference between "playable" and "verified"? I.e. what kind of bugs or unsupported features am I likely to encounter when I play one vs the other?

Not all the time, but sometimes, it's as simple as the game having a dialogue or launcher that is awkward to control on the touchscreen - but the game runs fine.

Forza Horizon 4 is Playable rather than Verified because of the Xbox Live sign in window at the start, but after that goes away it's flawless.

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Post by fomine3 »

parabyl wrote: post #217
NelsonMinar wrote: post #175

Proton is such a huge achievement. The SteamDeck isn't for me (don't care for mobile form factor). But this work also benefits me on a Chromebook using its experimental Steam support. It runs Steam and games in a container that works well with Proton.

Proton is really quite incredible as a compatibility layer, I've not seen any performance drops (if anything, only small performance gains, which I assume is due to fewer background processes in the OS), but most incredible is the frequency with which Proton is updated and worked on. I'd tried gaming on linux before and gave up after a week or two of configuration attempts. I had put it off for ages and tried with pr…

Some people say that a thing how Steam Deck performs good is thanks to shader cache. There's only one GPU(SoC) SKU for Steam Deck like normal gaming console, so shader cache can be precompiled for Steam games, unlike PC.

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by CuriousSkeptic »

aceazzameen wrote: post #350
the_snooze wrote: post #199

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Looking through Steam sales for sub-$10 titles with "Very Positive" or "Overwhelmingly Positive" reviews is a good filter. Some of my favorites over the years include Slay the Spire, Celeste, Vampire Survivors, and FTL. Edit: How can I forget the "holy trinity" of mystery indie games? Return of the Obra Dinn, Outer Wilds, and Her Story. These are brilliant games that really make you feel like a detective.

I wish I could play Outer Wilds again. That's up there as one of my all time favorites. Obra Dinn was phenomenal as well. I haven't heard of Her Story, but if you're putting it in the same league as those 2, then I'll have to try it out! It's also only $0.99 on Steam right now.

> I wish I could play Outer Wilds again

There's a rather extensive DLC to play through as well in case you haven't seen it. A bit different, but really well made too.

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Post by fomine3 »

nicce wrote: post #138
sspiff wrote: post #111

I bought a Steam Deck, I used it a bit but honestly not as much as I expected. I did however finally manage to dump Windows from all my machines, apart from my VR sim racing rig, and now play everything on my Linux desktop or laptop. If it doesn't run, at this point I just pick something else to play. Steam Deck has pushed the state of the art of Wine/Proton/DXVK/... so far it's mostly just a plug and play experience…

They might be pushing even more... Apparently lead graphics developer of Asahi Linux works also for Valve now [1]. If you have followed her work, such a talent. [1]: https://rosenzweig.io/resume.pdf

I've seen some post that FOSS dev worked for Valve as contractor. It's great that my payment for games finally go for FOSS developers and they develop FOSS. Also they expand real world usage of GNU/Linux (Linux Desktop!). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35605865

I wasn't a big fan of Steam so I've bought games from random store, but I'll buy any games from Steam as possible.

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Post by DropInIn »

neurostimulant wrote: post #327
causality0 wrote: post #203

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Nice to see at least somebody is actually putting their games on sale. The last few Steam sales have been pretty sad. Back in the day you could look at your wishlist and the average game would be 50% off, with lots of 75%s and 90%s. These days they act like giving you 20% off a five year old game is some big sale.

That depends on what on your wishlist though. I just bought Halo collection (90% off, includes 6 games) and Sleeping Dogs (also 90% off) for a grand total of $5 (localized pricing).

Heres the thing though:

I got sleeping dogs for the same price several months ago and could have also done so twice a month ever since... It's effectively just the going price and the discount is pulled just as an incentive to push immediate purchase when people do happen to log in....

I've stopped buying things on sale and am now waiting until I'm ready to play a specific game before buying it... Nearly 100 unplayed games on my gig with most never going to get played (I played Baldur's Gate enough as a kid, I don't need to play EE).

Re: More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

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Post by DropInIn »

Juke_Ellington wrote: post #351
DropInIn wrote: post #339

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"Going to them is an event, and affordable." Hmmm.... So is bull fighting but most of us refuse for various ethical and moral reasons... Maybe we should treat a giant parking lot that goes unused for 99% of the time, and requires people to use polluting transportation when they could use public transit to go to a theatre, as the giant unethical mess it is, eh?

To be fair, most movie theaters in the US have a giant, 99% unused parking lot attached to them anyways. Plus anywhere with a drive-in probably doesn’t have transit.

Most theatres are part of malls now aren't they, with the parking shared and therefore not unutilized most of the time?

Or is that just everywhere I've been?

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Post by slmjkdbtl »

barney54 wrote: post #9

For people that own a Steam Deck, how do you like it? And how do you use it? I would like to talk myself into buying one, but I can’t think of a decent use case.

I have a huge steam library but only has a macbook, steam deck enables me to play a lot of those games. For some games I even prefer to play it on the deck over my PS4, for example I had a great time playing Sekiro on the deck.

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Post by aceazzameen »

CuriousSkeptic wrote: post #354
aceazzameen wrote: post #350

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I wish I could play Outer Wilds again. That's up there as one of my all time favorites. Obra Dinn was phenomenal as well. I haven't heard of Her Story, but if you're putting it in the same league as those 2, then I'll have to try it out! It's also only $0.99 on Steam right now.

> I wish I could play Outer Wilds again There's a rather extensive DLC to play through as well in case you haven't seen it. A bit different, but really well made too.

Yes, that was also incredible. I appreciated that it was very different from the main game.

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Post by Benjamin_Dobell »

ChuckNorris89 wrote: post #253
kQq9oHeAz6wLLS wrote: post #250

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Doesn't work at the drive-in, though thankfully ours only shows one preview before the feature. But the drive-in is an edge case.

> the drive-in Tell me you live in the US :D

Sadly there aren't many left. The one we go to in Australia is shutting down this week: https://www.whichcar.com.au/news/melbourne-lunar-drive-in-ci...

Only went as a novelty maybe a few times before having kids. This drive-in was a godsend since having kids ~5 years ago, and have been going regularly since. Extremely handy during COVID too.

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